June, Nice to hear from you. David Bonner is in the 1850 census of Highland County, Ohio, Greenfield, page 137. He's not in Ancestry.com's index. He's also mentioned on p. 417-420 of the 1880 History of Highland and Ross Counties, by Williams, where it says he moved from Chillicothe to Greenfield about 1815 and set up a wool-carding mill. It also says he "was a very peculiar man and there was much said against him," and that he was in the habit of having people arrested for travelling on the Sabbath. There were apparently numerous siblings of David in Chillicothe. Yesterday I visited the Ross County Genealogical Society and I noticed a card in their family files listing a large Bonner family. I didn't copy it, because I'm more interested in his descendants than in his ancestors. My primary interest is the Johnsons. Nelly Johnson is mentioned as marrying a Mr. Bonner in an old family document, the reminiscences of my g g grandmother Agnes Carson Johnson. The Ross County will of James Taylor confirms that David and Nellie were married and furnishes the names of two of their children. Nellie Johnson had three older brothers, Nathaniel (my ancestor), James, and Henry. I do not know their parents' names, but they came to America from Ireland in about 1775. Nellie was born in PA after her father's death. So that's about everything I know. I hope this matches with your David. Steve >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [BONNER] David Bonner, Greenfield, Ohio >Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:04:56 EDT > >Hello Steve: > >I would be interested to hear from you regarding your posting for David >Bonner in Ohio. I have a David Banner I am looking for and am beginning to >think >there was a name change down the road as I find nothing but dead ends. > >Do you have info on his wife Nellie Johnson? Their parents? Did you find >them in the census...if so, what year?? > >Thanks ever so much.......June _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail